I’ve been playing on and off with a SciFi/Fantasy blog called Twisted Bubble Books. I’m not exactly sure why I felt that the topic needed to be entirely separate.
I guess in my head not all SciFi/Fantasy is horror. But most of the genre that I read has a lot of horror elements to it. So really… it totally fits on Horror Made and I was being ridiculous to assume otherwise.
Pfft… I’m fickle.
Anyway, since I only have a handful of posts over there I’m going to transfer my favorites over here and just add a weekly geek-out SciFi/Fantasy Escapes type post.
Daleks, and Fae, and talking animals galore! So, to start you off, here’s the first (well-thought) post I created for Twisted Bubble.
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You know what’s hard to track down? 1st edition books. But thank goodness for E-Bay because now Immortal Alexander and I are the proud owners of The Neverending Story‘s 1st english translation from 1983.
Which is something I didn’t realize, this book was originally written in German. Who knew?
Why go through the trouble to find this edition?
Three main reasons.
- Because we both love the movie
- Neither of us have read the book version
- The Illustrations in this particular edition are gorgeous
Also, we’re nerds.
So I wanted to share with you guys some of the this book’s artwork. And after I read this puppy, I’ll come back and do a little retrospective/ or Book vs. Movie kinda thing.
Here’s one of the inside illustrations:
And this sassiness (below) is the very first chapter heading.
You have to look at it in a mirror to read it correctly! So flippin’ clever.
What kind of 1st edition book would you love to get your hands on?
One of my favorites, too! I liked the book better than the movie, but still the movie remains a favorite. Ende also wrote a book called “Momo”, which I also really like — have you read that?
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Oooo, nope. I’ll have to find that one. What’s it about?
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A little girl who takes up residence in an amphitheater and has a way of making people feel good just by listening, literally saving time, gray men in gray suits who smoke gray cigars, …. http://smile.amazon.com/Momo-Puffin-Books-Michael-Ende/dp/0140317538
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That’s going on my need to read list
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I will download the movie. Thanks for this post, Jeanette. 😀
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My pleasure! The Neverending story is, by far, one of my favorite films. It’s adventure is so wide reaching and I find it so inspiring. Enjoy 🙂
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Thank you 😀
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